Word: rafael
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present, both the U.S. dollar and the Dominican peso will be legal tender, but after three months, by Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's law, the dollar may be withdrawn from general circulation. The Central Bank will have the right to control all dollar exchange. Chief advantage for Dictator Trujillo: complete control over all his country's dollar purchases...
...commander of the rebels, Colonel Rafael Franco, onetime Provisional President of Paraguay, did not stop to investigate the source of Morinigo's new arms. He fled by seaplane last week to Argentina. His two gunboats, the Paraguay and Humaitd, soon followed. Six months of civil war were sputtering to a close...
...fourth time in 17 years, Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo took the oath of office as President of the Dominican Republic. (He had copped last May's rigged election, with 93% of the votes.) Delegates of 40 nations, on hand for the show at the Senate Palace, heard the Dictator blandly promise to "maintain the same system of democratic order followed heretofore." For the long-hatching plot of Dominican exiles to overthrow him (TIME, Aug. 11, 18) Trujillo had a characteristic answer. Halfway through his oration he paused, barked: "Whoever tries to disturb the peace will find that...
Somewhere in eastern Cuba, Dominican exiles lined up the team that would take over when the great day came-if it came. For Provisional President they picked soft-spoken Angel Morales, 50, Dominican Minister to Washington in the days before Rafael Leonidas Trujillo seized power. Their "army," which now included half the University of Havana football squad, drilled with bazookas, flamethrowers and machetes. Their "air power," they figured, would surpass the Dictator's, even though Cuba last week seized part of it: a Catalina flying boat, two Ventura medium bombers and a four-engined Liberator. Despite publicity enough...
...about A.P. for some time, especially since a June dispatch had relayed the uncomplimentary comment of a London daily on Eva Peron's proposed British visit. * Foreign Minister Juan A. Bramuglia discreetly let it be known that it might be a nice idea for slight, 39-year-old Rafael Ordorica, head of the A.P. bureau, to leave. Last week A.P. Boss Kent Cooper called Ordorica home "for consultation," because, said he, the correspondent had been in Argentina for six years, and it was time they had a chat...